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Alabama student's efforts to help homeless man before Sugar Bowl ends with her petition and lunch for 200 homeless

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Chelsea Brentzel, 21, poses in front of a Tuscaloosa, Ala., Cracker Barrel at the start of her waitressing shift on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. The University of Alabama senior says she was in New Orleans for Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2, 2014, when she offered to pay for a homeless man's meal at Subway and was met with insults by a store manager. (Photo courtesy of Chelsea Brentzel)

According to NOLA.com, Manoj Patel and Paul Patel, owners of the Subway shop at 112 Royal St., apologized when Brentzel - in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl earlier this month - went into the store to buy a homeless veteran a sandwich and was treated unkindly.

"We are really sad and shocked about this incident and we would like to make it right," Paul Patel said.

Brentzel said the words the manager said to the homeless man were hard to ignore.

"You don't deserve to eat."

She began a petition, asking that Subway donate food to the homeless in New Orleans.

The petition got hundreds of signatures.

Subway, initially, agreed to donate two party platters to the homeless, which would feed about 20 people.

"If they really cared, they would do more about the situation," she said.

The Patels told NOLA.com they plan to deliver the sandwiches to Ozanam Inn on Wednesday. Ozanam Inn provides roughly 600 meals a day, seven days a week to the homeless including breakfast, lunch and dinner.